Your personal guide to Mayo Clinic and Rochester, Minnesota.

Mayo Clinic here in Rochester Minnesota is recognized once again by US News and World Report’s Best Hospitals for 2011-2012 for their achievements in many specialties. Mayo Clinic scores #1 ratings in Diabetes, Gastroenterology, Gynecology, Nephrology. Mayo Clinic scored #2 in Pulmonology, Neurology, Neurosurgery and Orthopedics, Cardiology and Heart Surgery. I can assure you I would personally chose Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN for all their #2 […]

Outdated as of 6-16-2017: Go Here for Updated Hotel Info Here is an 2011 updated list of hotels here in Rochester Minnesota. These hotels all have Mayo Clinic Access or Shuttle Access to Mayo Clinic. I plan to blog in much more detail soon on these hotels and other “Mayo Clinic Convenient Hotels” . I plan to […]

Mayo Clinic recently released their 2010 annual report and showed that they alone provided 64.4 million dollars in care to those who could not afford to pay for their Mayo Clinic care. If you are in this financial situation make sure you work hard to access this generosity. This was 64 million dollars in a 12 months period from […]

I hope you are lucky enough that your first phone call into your health insurance company is answered by a caring and fair person who will try hard to explain how you can utilize your insurance coverage at Mayo Clinic. But far too often you will talk to someone who is very negative and works […]

Update: October 4, 2015 Please read this post for additional help both spirituality and financially. Mayo Clinic and The Saint Francis Connections As I have talked about in my blog Mayo Clinic was founded on the statement that “the needs of the patient come first” Therefore Mayo Clinic has many supporters who work to help those […]

Update 9-24-2015 – It is all done! Ready to ATTACK Cancer! Mr. Jacobson, like myself, felt the need to do something for Mayo Clinic and help people come to Mayo Clinic. But unlike my humble little blog here trying to help, Mr Jacobson gave the largest amount to Mayo Clinic that a […]

I am still looking for the original video of the speech that Doctor Mayo (Founder of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota) gave to a graduating class of doctors in 1910. But until I find the video to post up here on my blog here is the text version of that very famous quote. His statement (in BOLD below) is the […]

Today your appointment that schedules your visit to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota is evaluated, coordinated and maintained by what is called ” The Electronic Medical Record at Mayo Clinic” the acronym used here at Mayo Clinic is “EMR”. By noon everyday this system handles on average 15 million transactions. This system is available to more that 16,000 computer terminals in the […]

When you are given your first Mayo Clinic appointments you will be assigned a Mayo Clinic Number. Referred to here at the Mayo Clinic as your “Clinic Number” This will be your Mayo Clinic number for the rest of your life. This number tracks all you Mayo Clinic results and records as well as organizes, […]

I just posted the info about Mayo Clinic’s Online Appointment access and I realized that I have not posted about Mayo Clinic’s Free Wi-Fi access. This is very important to us smartphone users accessing the internet. You can rest assured your Android, iPhone or BlackBerry can connect for free here in Rochester, MN to Mayo Clinic’s very […]